PTD-Art.16: Right to compensation
Workers who have suffered harm as a result of an infringement of any right or obligation relating to the principle of equal pay shall have the right to claim and obtain full compensation or reparation, including full recovery of back pay and related bonuses or payments in kind, and compensation for lost opportunities and non-material damage.
Our statement of the clause of Directive (EU) 2023/970 on pay transparency, held and verified: cite it as PTD-Art.16. The instrument verbatim is not quoted here; the held framework carries the reading.
The evidence this duty asks you to hold
Mechanism providing full compensation incl back pay for equal-pay breaches
What usually goes missing
Capped or partial remedies that do not make the worker whole
Where this lands in an audit
In Equal Pay Auditor this control informs the same-work screen, the category figures and the remediation steps, which carry their article citations on the result.